Sentence examples for shipwreck with from inspiring English sources

According to Teffi, an actress friend survived a shipwreck with her sealskin coat intact.

Yet the club of Mortensen, Stanley Matthews and Jimmy Armfield feels like a shipwreck with floodlights, and it could get a lot worse before it gets any better.

"I turned away from the monitor then looked back – and there it was: a clear image of a shipwreck with exposed beams lying on the sea floor.

Then I looked back and there it was: a clear image of a shipwreck with exposed beams lying on the sea floor.

The 10-member Bergmann crew found the massive shipwreck, with her three masts broken but still standing, almost all hatches closed and everything stowed, in the middle of King William Island's uncharted Terror Bay on 3 September.

Miller steadied the shipwreck – with productions including John Cleese as a brilliant Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew – and it's good to have a permanent record of, for example, Derek Jacobi's Hamlet.

He is also the kind of rugged and capable man you's happily be shipwrecked with.

He tells the duke, Solinus, his sad tale: years earlier he and his wife had been shipwrecked with their infant sons, identical twins, and a pair of infant servants, also identical twins.

This vivid story of a boy shipwrecked with a tiger was certainly crafted with confidence and flair, though for me its other Oscars for cinematography and visual design are more to the point.

JM Barrie's play The Admirable Crichton showed a butler taking power because he is the only one with practical knowhow when his aristocratic employers are shipwrecked with him on a desert island: but the status quo is ultimately restored.

As we walked from cemetery to church to open bluff, Mr. Toope played readings on his tape recorder: excerpts from court records of bawdy 18th-century Trinity, an inventory of shipwrecks with the number of lives lost.